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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-6B-09" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="6B" subtitle_name="Registered Pharmacy Technicians">
  <text>Subject to the hearing provision of § 12–315 of this title, the Board may deny a pharmacy technician’s registration to any applicant, reprimand a registered pharmacy technician, place any pharmacy technician’s registration on probation, or suspend or revoke a pharmacy technician’s registration if the applicant or pharmacy technician registrant:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Performs an act that is restricted to a licensed pharmacist;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a pharmacy technician’s registration for the applicant or assists or attempts to assist another in fraudulently or deceptively obtaining a pharmacy technician’s registration;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Fraudulently uses a pharmacy technician’s registration;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Knowingly aids an unauthorized individual to practice pharmacy or to represent that the individual is a licensed pharmacist or registered pharmacy technician;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>Performs delegated pharmacy acts while:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Under the influence of alcohol; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Using any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article, or other drug that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Submits a false statement to collect a fee;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record as part of the registered pharmacy technician’s duties or employment;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>Willfully fails to file or record any report that is required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>Willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of any report that is required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>Willfully induces another to fail to file or record any report that is required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>Provides or causes to be provided to any authorized prescriber prescription forms that bear the name, address, or other means of identification of a pharmacist or pharmacy;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>Provides remuneration to an authorized prescriber for referring an individual to a licensed pharmacist, registered pharmacy technician, or pharmacy for a product or service to be provided by that licensed pharmacist, registered pharmacy technician, or pharmacy;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="13">
    <text>Agrees with an authorized prescriber or pharmacist to prepare or dispense a secret formula prescription;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="14">
    <text>Except as to an association that has remained in continuous existence since July 1, 1963, associates as a partner, co–owner, or employee of a pharmacy that is owned wholly or substantially by an authorized prescriber or group of authorized prescribers;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="15">
    <text>Knowingly aids a pharmacist in dispensing any drug, device, or diagnostic for which a prescription is required without a written, oral, or electronically transmitted prescription from an authorized prescriber;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="16">
    <text>Unless an authorized prescriber authorizes the refill, refills a prescription for any drug, device, or diagnostic for which a prescription is required;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="17">
    <text>Violates any labeling requirements in this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="18">
    <text>Violates any provision of § 12–603 of this title, which concerns the home dialysis distribution program;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="19">
    <text>Advertises or otherwise publicly claims to dispense prescriptions in a superior manner;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="20">
    <text>Advertises in a manner that tends to deceive or defraud the public;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="21">
    <text>Is physically or mentally incompetent;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="22">
    <text>Pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to, or has been found guilty of, a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude, regardless of whether:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>An adjudication of guilt or sentencing or imposition of sentence is withheld; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Any appeal or other proceeding is pending regarding the matter;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="23">
    <text>Violates any provision of this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="24">
    <text>Is disciplined by a licensing, registering, or disciplinary authority of any state or country or convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="25">
    <text>Violates any regulation adopted by the Board;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="26">
    <text>Refuses, withholds from, denies, or discriminates against an individual with regard to the provision of professional services for which the registered pharmacy technician is registered and qualified to render because the individual is HIV positive;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="27">
    <text>Participates in any activity that is grounds for Board action under § 12–313 or § 12–409 of this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="28">
    <text>Provides or causes to be provided confidential patient information to any person without first having obtained the patient’s consent, as required by § 12–403(c)(13) of this title and by Title 4, Subtitle 3 of the Health – General Article;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="29">
    <text>Fails to cooperate with a lawful investigation conducted by the Board or the Office of Controlled Substances Administration;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="30">
    <text>Performs delegated pharmacy acts in an incompetent manner; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="31">
    <text>Performs delegated pharmacy acts that are inappropriate based on the registered pharmacy technician’s education, training, and experience.</text>
  </level>
</section>
